015: My First Cross Country Experience
I’ve always been in awe of Cross Country runners. In high school, the top athletes would run 70km per week at breathtaking speeds, carry and routinely empty their ammo-case-sized lunchboxes and bound around school with legs so lean, springy and muscular it would make a Durban July-winner look chunky. Consequently, I could never relate to them. At that stage in my life, I preached Proverbs 28: “Only the wicked run without being chased.” I once uttered this line to a top-athlet
6 hours ago10 min read
014: SACAIR 2025 - Getting on the academic scoreboard
I had the honour to represent my employer, Matrix Design Africa , at the Southern African Conference for AI Research (SACAIR) from 1 to 5 December 2025 in Cape Town. I co-authored a paper with my colleague, Warren Brettenny, on a perspective of the implications that we see arising from incorporating Agentic AI into traditional analytics workflows. Here follows a summary of the key themes to arise from each of the different days at the conference. Tutorial Day, 2 December: The
Dec 17, 20258 min read
013: 33 things at 33
It's my birthday! I've been saying I feel old since I was 17 years old. The feelings of oldness stem from the fact that I've been stuffing my life chockful of experiences since that age. I rarely give myself time to fully reflect on an experience, before I tackle the next one. In the last 12 months, I've often felt dejected and have asked questions like: "Why have I not reached certain goals?" and "Why do I feel so underwhelmed by the things I do achieve?" In examining these
Dec 5, 20255 min read
012: Om te stap saam met 'n luiperd
In 2019, drie jaar nadat ons die lieflike Strandloper-staproete op die Wildekus gedoen het, is ek en my vrou, Nadia, genooi om die tweedag Baviaanskrans-staproete in die Kgaswane-natuurreservaat net duskant Rustenburg te voltooi. Met ’n nuwe stapsak propvol lekker kos, het ons saam met ons goeie vriend, Simon Dey – ’n gesoute stapper in eie reg – op die N4 in ’n westelike rigting uit Pretoria geklim en by ons mede stapmaats aangesluit. By Kgaswane gekom, het ons ’n nare verra
Nov 17, 20258 min read
011: Running PBs is a lot like drinking unicorn blood.
Note: not actual unicorn blood. Running for health is really simple in theory. You only need to elevate your heart rate for roughly 150 minutes per week. You can engage in light cross training by swinging a padel racquet with three equally chilled friends, hitting a singletrack with your mountain bike or attending a hot yoga class where you are guaranteed to be the least attractive person in the room. You never need to worry about planning and suffering the blood-taste-in-you
Oct 14, 20256 min read
010: The Examined Life #1 - Plato and Perfectionism
The perfect cup and the one you have to drink... The Examined Life I’ve always had good intentions to read more philosophy. Many reckon...
Aug 28, 202512 min read
009: Winter 2025 - "Dankie", maar, "Nee, dankie"
Oneweredig soos 'n mikrogolf-lasagna - dis winter in Suid-Afrika. Ons woon in ’n baksteenhuis met ’n sinkdak. Ons huis staan in die skadu...
Jul 9, 20255 min read
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